We had so many entries into our ‘All creatures great and small’ photography competition sponsored by Harkila and we would just like to say a huge thank you to all those who took the time to enter. We are very pleased to announce that we have chosen our winner. A huge congratulations goes to Terry Grove for…

Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland, the medical fly fishing programme for ladies who have, or have had breast cancer, returned to Wales during the weekend of 11-13 May after a five-year break. Twelve ladies from across the country attended the retreat at the beautiful Garnffrwd Fishery in Carmarthenshire. Jamie Miller from Garnffrwd Fishery was…

Children at St Petroc’s School, Bude were treated to a visit from Falconry for Schools on Tuesday (8 May). Our instructor Sharon Bindon brought along five birds to meet the pupils; an American kestrel, a common English buzzard, a little owl, a barn owl and a goshawk. The school wrote up a report of their…

Members of the Thameside Works Angling and Preservation Society (TWAPS) have kindly agreed to let the Fishing for Schools Kent group use a club water, that is normally only open to members, for coaching. The new arrangement means F4S will be able to use Cobham Hall, which is a lovely water in the grounds of…

Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland (CfR) featured on BBC Northern Ireland’s Home Ground programme on Saturday 5th May to explain how the sport of fly fishing is helping women who have or have had breast cancer. Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland is run by The Countryside Alliance Foundation, the charity set up to…

Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland, the medical fly fishing programme for ladies who have, or have had breast cancer, held its first retreat of 2018 in North Yorkshire from 20-22 April. The Coniston Hotel Country Estate & Spa near Skipton hosted fourteen ladies from across the country. Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland is…

The warmer weather is here at last and Fishing 4 Schools instructor and fly fishing expert Bob Goble gives us his tips for good fishing this May. I am so glad that May is here and I’m feeling the warmth on my back at last, after the dreadful weather earlier this year. Life is great…

A massive thank you is due to the four runners who battled the heat and took part in yesterday’s Virgin Money London Marathon (22nd April) in aid of The Countryside Alliance Foundation (TCAF). Between them, they have so far raised more than £5000.00 for the TCAF initiatives Fishing 4 Schools, Falconry for Schools and Casting for Recovery. This will…

Last weekend Fishing for Schools founder and director Charles Jardine completed his most extreme challenge to date, raising more than £10,000 for the charity. Charles and his running partner Richard Davis ran between three Wessex Water fisheries – a distance equivalent to two marathons, all within 24 hours. In his final blog, Charles tells us…

Fishing for Schools founder Charles Jardine completed his marathon Wessex Water Challenge on Sunday, to raise around £9,000 for Fishing for Schools and its sister charity Casting for Recovery. Charles, 65, of Downton, Wiltshire, ran the equivalent of two marathons between three Wessex Water Reservoirs, catching a trout at each – all within 24 hours…

Charles Jardine, the founder and director of the Fishing for Schools initiative, undertakes his greatest challenge yet, on 7th/8th April – the #WessexWaterChallenge. This 24-hour event will see 65-year-old Charles fish at three Wessex Water Reservoirs and run the 60 miles between them, all in the space of a day. You can sponsor him here So here…

Fishing for Schools instructor Bob Goble shares his tips for good fishing in April A lot has happened since last month – I have moved home and my car has been in for repairs due to someone ramming its rear end – but there has been very little fishing. I probably don’t need to remind…